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Best Gambit Poems

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Premium Member The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

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Categories: gambit, courage, dark, faith, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gambit
If we sacrifice, that what we possess,
allusion being to ego we know,
this gambit pays off, for as we undress
and conditioned beliefs slowly let go,
released from...

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Categories: gambit, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Dark
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.



I’m...

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Categories: gambit, dark, deep, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lighthouse
Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.

Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
rumblings herald his adversary's
latest gambit in their age-old conflict.

The wrath of...

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Categories: gambit, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Live For Danger
I never meant to love you, I never meant to care
I never meant to cross the line or change a thing, I swear
You never could...

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Categories: gambit, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In Silence, a Motherland
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.  God is the friend of silence.  See how nature-trees,...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gambit, poverty, woman,
Form: Jueju
Most Restful Sleep Since Being In Utero
Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got...

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Categories: gambit, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magenta Skyline Cluster
First blush fountain azimuth of hued rays
wet patio shrub basket in the haze
zealous heartland tower cry as life force
celebrate and  savour August rare days

Magenta...

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Categories: gambit, beautiful, birth, celebration, dream,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Spiritual Mahjong Your Move Lord
Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before...

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Categories: gambit, bible, christian, death, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lucifer Gets the Gig
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.” 
Anatole France

"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gambit, heaven, satire, universe,
Form: Prose
Superheroes
A childhood dream - see them and feel,
My superheroes, thought they were real:

Superman, the man of steel

Batman on his wheels

Spider-man on his tightest suit

The oversize...

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Categories: gambit, life
Form: List
Premium Member The Dawn of My Devil -
The Devil spoke to me
with glee about what could be, promising, possibly,
he thumbed a drum of hearts pulsing
so I could see the drug of love
that...

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Categories: gambit, adventure, christian, drug, me,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Animals Alive
Gambit


Gambit you were such a friend
twenty years we had together
filled with the fun of your antics
like the time as a kitten
you jumped on the table
and...

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Categories: gambit, cat,
Form: Personification
Cartoon Flow
Yeah I got PokeBalls to catch Goals
I'm like Ash Ketchum when he Throws
Cause Ash Catch Em Bold I'm like Pidgeotto when my wings Flow
Look at...

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Categories: gambit, character, creation, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Raising a Tribe - Part One
Eve, this land is already populated,
peopled by persons who seem like us,
although diffetent too, like seasons in soul,
divergent in their dreams for dynasty,
they have dialects...

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Categories: gambit, angel, bible, christian, courage,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs